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Rackspace Study: Pace rapid technological change makes decisions more difficult than 10 years ago -

two-thirds (66 percent) of iT decision makers in the UK agree the rapid pace of technology change makes decisions about the most difficult investment 10 years ago iT, according to a new study commissioned by Rackspace Hosting. The study found that as a result of this rapid pace of change, 62 percent of IT decision makers have invested in the hardware or software that was never used by the organization.

The challenge extends from providing the appropriate tools to effectively manage applications and business infrastructure through the implementation of appropriate technology for employees. Of those surveyed, more than half (51 percent) had deployed the technology within the company that employees have never received or used the full benefit. One reason for this may be that nearly three-quarters (74 percent) bought the technology that was more difficult to use than originally thought.

Significantly, respondents who have invested in difficult conditions to use technology were more likely to go to the budget (74 percent) than those who have managed to avoid ( 26 percent).

"technology has undoubtedly transformed the way we work and became intrinsically linked to the function how companies and run, but it is also evolving at a much faster rate than ever before," said John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Hosting . "While the promise of IT transformation presents interesting opportunities for companies, the number of options facing departments is significant. And the impact of IT failure is more public and more punitive than ever before. This is a challenge in any industry. "

" most organizations are now at a stage where they can not realistically be responsible for expertise throughout the technology they use in their businesses "added Engates ." We heard that customers every day. - They want a trusted partner to help make decisions on the purchase and management of law IT "

The study also found Rackspace key learning opportunities for IT decision-makers including:

• Start with your "What" - What is the matter of the business, you must solve This may sound simple, but understanding? what you need and why you need it lead to better decision in the long term decision
• do your due diligence - According to 42 percent of respondents, they would do more background research before investing in new technologies
• set goals - Think about the goals you want to set for the project - not just your usual project objectives, but also the business end goal, such as reducing costs, increasing productivity, and increasing customer engagement
• Getting a second opinion - 28 percent of respondents wanted they asked for a second opinion. Talking to peers, clients and partners - chances are they have done something similar before so their experience will be invaluable to make the right decision
• Get expert advice - An expert will also be sure that you have the right infrastructure and people in place for your implementation. 32 percent of companies we spoke to would ensure that they had the right staff before introducing a new technology
• Education is critical - Make sure employees fully understand the benefits of technology that you implement. 41 percent of respondents we spoke to said they would take more time to educate employees on how to make the most of new technologies
• Ongoing evaluation - Have a timetable for the evaluation of how the project is going and reference to the objectives that you set when you made the purchase decision. This will help you see where your successes are and what you need to change or improve

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The Rackspace survey , which interviewed 250 iT decision makers across the UK was carried out by Bilendi. 100 respondents were organizations with 1,001 or more employees, 100 respondents were organizations with 251-1000 employees, 50 respondents were fewer than 250 employees organizations.

cPanel Conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Denver -

invites cPanel web professionals and amateurs hosting the 10th anniversary celebration of the cPanel Conference in Denver, Colorado. CPanel Conference 2015 will be held September 14-16 at the Westin Denver Downtown.

cPanel Conference brings together entrepreneurs, developers, service providers and website owners for three days of workshops, discussions, and exploration accommodation . Participants can expect full access session and exhibition, parties, and lots of gifts.

Nick Koston, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of cPanel, and Matthew Prince, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CloudFlare, will deliver keynote addresses at the celebration of this year. night events include Casino Night, Beer & Billiards in Wynkoop Brewery and dance by the Ballpark (co-sponsored by heavyweights Weebly technology and WHMCS). Moreover, the cPanel University will offer exams for cPanel and WHM sales and technical certifications on site.

"As a team, we like to set cPanel conference," said Stephen May, Owner Product Marketing cPanel . "He is the only time of year that we get to connect with all our partners and integrators in the web hosting ecosystem and just talk about what we can do to make their life easier. In addition, we give a lot of cool things, and it makes us happy. "

For more information on the cPanel Conference 2015, visit http://conference.cpanel.com. Pre-registration ends July 31.

NVIDIA GRID 2.0 comes to the Dell blade platform with Dell M630 Blade Amulet Hotkey Based DXM-M6 vGPU Blade -

Amulet Hotkey, a company helping data center, cloud and Virtual server technology providers bring to market solutions for VDI, virtualization, GPU loading and integration of PCoIP and acceleration, launched an NVIDIA GRID vGPU able Dell Blade. This would allow companies to experience the full benefit of remote access to rich graphics applications using VMware vSphere Horizon 6 and 6 with the new NVIDIA GRID 2.0.

The NVIDIA GRID 2.0- base to blade servers are sold and supported by Dell through its OEM partnership with Amulet Hotkey. Amulet Hotkey is the largest custom engineering partner in the world for Dell blade platform.

The blade server Dell M630 is 13th generation of Dell blade platform and provides dual-processor servers with the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors and up 768 GB DDR4 memory. The Dell M1000e blade chassis can accommodate 16 M630 blades 10u of rack space.

theoretical maximum density for the M630 combined with the Amulet Hotkey DMX-M6 (powered by GRID 2.0) indicate that a single M1000e chassis can accommodate 256 graphics users in a virtualized environment (VDI) . This means that a rack could accommodate 1,024 vGPU graphics users, and we believe this is a combination of industry leader.

"Virtualization of the company transforms the traditional desktop and business applications, and collaboration with Amulet Hotkey extends processing high desktops and applications range so that organizations can benefit from mobile cloud era, "said Joyce Mullen, VP / General Manager Global OEM Solutions, Dell . "Specialized Industries such as design agencies, automakers and architectural firms will be able to embrace professional mobility to help retain talent, control costs and compete in the 21st century."

Desktop Virtualization

NVIDIA GRID vGPU with VMware Horizon 6, built on vSphere improve desktop virtualization with immersive graphics, greater security for critical data, scalable performance and profitability.

the advantages of virtualization graphics companies with VMware Horizon 6 and vSphere would be:

• Ability to virtualize business workflows for designers, architects and engineers to perform the most advanced graphics -Rich applications from anywhere on any device with the new NVIDIA GRID 2.0 solution.
• flexibility for IT departments to support up to 16 users on the GPU powered applications on a single server blade industry leader.
• profitable virtualized graphics for workers who do not require maximum performance GPU, but whose applications benefit from GPU acceleration.
• Support for end users to run immersive, graphically rich Windows 2D, 3D graphics and media- rich applications on essentially any device by using VMware Horizon 6. This offer post-class performance working for remote and mobile workers, even on high-latency networks

". providing great computing experience to users, NVIDIA and Amulet Hotkey expand opportunities for enterprise virtualization workflow to scale, "said Andrew Cresci, general manager of NVIDIA GRID business, NVIDIA ." NVIDIA GRID 2.0 offers the best graphics performance in a leading virtualization platform on the blade server industry Amulet Hotkey DXM M630-M6. "

DE-CIX Internet Exchange launches its service and acquires Terremark Istanbul-based IST-IX -

dE-CIX, a provider of Internet Exchange (IX) services of operation of several carrier neutral and independent Internet exchange internationally, including dE-CIX Frankfurt, Germany; DE-CIX New York, USA; and UAE-IX in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has launched its new Internet exchange in Istanbul, Turkey. Furthermore, DE-CIX International acquired the Internet Exchange Istanbul (IST-IX), founded by Terremark.

DE-CIX Istanbul will locate the first presence of its new platform in MedNautilus building a multi-tenant data center and neutral facility. The building houses colocation operators on several floors, including MedNautilus (part of Telecom Italia Sparkle Group), Turkcell / Superonline and Verizon. All other floors of the data center will DE-CIX-enabled.

The building is also served with a capacity of all major Turkish national and a large number of international carriers. This includes being a landing station of the submarine cable MedNautilus skeleton, which serves the Mediterranean. Because of this strong connectivity in the installation center MedNautilus of data , customers immediately an abundant and diverse community of carriers to choose from.

In addition, DE-CIX service will be available in more than fifteen additional data center facilities across the city of Istanbul . Network operators can also enjoy the DE-CIX Istanbul service in three other cities across Turkey, including Ankara, Bursa and Izmir .

IST-IX

In addition, international dE-CIX Internet Exchange acquired Istanbul (IST-IX), founded by Terremark. IST-IX will be transferred to DE-CIX and upgraded to the platform DE-CIX Apollo -. "Service Level Agreements of best-in-class (SLA)" exchange 100GE-enabled DE-CIX supported by

"dE-CIX Istanbul will become a" center of gravity "in a network of the world that is so important for the Internet," said Harald A. Summa, CEO of dE- CIX . "We combine a strong multi-carrier data center environment with dE-CIX Apollo and experience in building Internet exchanges successfully. We intend to establish a peering ecosystem that consists primarily of both national and regional players that will evolve in an interconnection environment attractive world class for the entire region. "

Juniper Networks Introduces Junos software Disintegration expand customer choice and Network Automation -

at its NXTWORK 2015 Customer Summit, Juniper Networks unveiled a disaggregated version of its Junos software to provide Guest ultimate choice in data center deployment options. With the disintegration of Junos software, customers will have the ability to deploy third-party network services or applications directly on Juniper platforms, as well as the option to program directly to Juniper systems using the Open Compute Project supported (OCP ) defined software model.

With the disaggregated software Junos, customers for the first time be able to develop and install party applications directly supported Juniper switching systems, as well as running the Junos disaggregated Install software on Open Network Environment (ONIE) compliant third-party switches.

100GbE

At the same time, Juniper Networks has introduced their line of QFX50 access switches, the first platform to run the Junos software disaggregated, and support the Gigabit Ethernet emerging 25 and 50 (GbE) standard . Together the switches and provide software automation of high-quality network programmability and flexibility while providing customers in the purchase of equipment separately software with a pay-for-what-you-need-software license model.

The just introduced access QFX50 switches with multi-speed capability 10GbE to 100GbE would allow customers to migrate to higher port speeds and support 25GbE / 50GbE without upgrades expensive. With 25GbE give clients 2.5 times the 10GbE performance while using the existing wiring infrastructure.

QFX50 switches support the disaggregated version of Junos software, combines "high performance" switching with the flexibility, power and functionality of a quad-core server processor.

a new pricing model for QFX50 allow customers to buy the Junos software and hardware platform QFX50 together or separately.

Cloud Orchestration

his NXTWORK 2015 Customer Summit , Juniper Networks highlighted the rapid implementation of its architecture and Juniper Networks Juniper Networks MetaFabric Contrail software-defined network (SDN) technologies through convergence and hyper-converged solutions stack. Juniper's MetaFabric and Contrail solutions offer clients an open infrastructure plug-and-play to quickly deploy data center and cloud networks.

In NXTWORK 2015, Juniper also introduced Cloud CPE , fully automated end to end solution for virtualization network functions based on an open framework to help customers deliver new wide services. CPE includes coverage Contrail Service Orchestration, a management platform and full orchestration for providing and managing virtualized network services and NFX250, the first of a series of platforms for network services that can work as safe, on devices running multiple virtual local network functions, from Juniper Networks and others, at the same time.

OpenStack, Apache, Netconf

Managed by Director Junos Space Network , customers can control the entire corporate network through a single pane of glass. In addition, with Network Director Juniper Management Pack for VMware vRealize operations, in addition to interoperability with VMware vCenter Server, users have visibility into the health, capacity and performance of the network infrastructure of the business, which further simplifies the control of physical and virtual network and management.

using an approach of open platform, Juniper offers open access to Linux so that customers can freely orchestrate party applications using OpenStack, Apache, Netconf or other tools. This new level of modularity network services enable easy integration with customer applications, RPS controllers and orchestration tools.

With the support of MPLS, BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and L2 "robust" / function L3, Juniper give customers design options, architect and automate the ideal overlay network with the best sub-layer infrastructure.